RESIDENTS of the Manchester districts of Newport and Georges Valley were in mourning yesterday as they grieved over the deaths of Caullian Beale, 28, and her common-law spouse, Michael White, a 37-year-old, taxi operator, who were killed in a bizarre murder/suicide case.

Police say Beale walked out of the relationship three weeks ago and on Wednesday sought their assistance to remove her belongings from White's Georges Valley home where they both lived for two years.

The woman, the police reported, boarded a taxi with the intention of returning to her home in the nearby district of Newport. However, White is reported to have trailed the car before ramming his vehicle into the taxi on the Hillside main road, close to the Northern Caribbean University campus.

Police said the woman instructed the driver of taxi to keep driving when she saw that her former spouse was the driver of the other car. The driver obeyed her instructions, but White reportedly rammed the car, causing it to run off the road.
According to the police, Beale ran from the vehicle, but White chased her onto a premises and stabbed her several times before slashing her throat. She died on the spot.

Early yesterday morning, the police said they were summoned to the district of Old England where White's body was found floating in a water tank by his relatives who were searching for him since news of Beale's murder broke. The
police said they believe White committed suicide.

Beale's grandfather, Joseph Hall, was grief-stricken yesterday. He told the Observer that he had raised her since she was three months old and considered her his daughter.
"It serious bredda, but we have to just keep the faith," Hall said. "Him do it because him a disadvantage her and she leave him."

At the same time, Beale's aunt, Daisy Hall, said White would sometimes get 'physical' with Beale.

"We never see this coming, but the relationship was not good," Hall said.

Meanwhile, a source told the Observer that White's mother has been overwhelmed by the incident and has been hospitalised since
the tragedy.

- Additional reporting by Garfield Myers

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